Response 1

Defining design is no easy tack, but I believe it is important that we continue to think about and redefine was design is. From our reading of this week’s articles and our lecture last Tuesday, the conversation of ‘what is design’ means different to person to person. This makes sense since we are still young in our career, and our definition is based around our experiences in college. Although, even that changes from person to person. What I didn’t truly understand in the reading was the line,”To truly define design would be to kill it.” I don’t understand that comment even after reading the articles. Design and designing things is a constant. As humans, we seek knowledge and better understanding of the world around us. We understand then change the world in a that fits our needs. We designed our communities, our methods of taming and domesticating animals, our farms, our cites, our roads and streets, and etc. Thinking in terms of graphic design, companies will always come and go, and those companies will always need a brand. They will always need marketing, and even with new software that is supposed to make that easier. This softwares are going to produce brands that don’t feel tailored to the company. Defining something so complicated and ever-expanding as design shouldn’t and wouldn’t kill it, but I believe trying to define something so fluid is very hard. However, it also depends of the context.
In our lecture, we classified design the verb and design the noun, and even then that’s very complicated. You can design something like a product, but the product isn’t the design itself. However, the product cannot exist without design. For instance, the Ninja blender will be my example. A engineer created the blueprint/schematics of the Ninja. That person designed the Ninja. A graphic designer designed the packaging to go with it. A marketer designs the marketing strategy and the advertisements, but those aren’t the design.